Incredible footage of emperor penguin chicks making their first leap.nationalgeographic.com/animals/photog…

I spoke with ⁦⁦Robin McKie⁩ from the ⁦The Observer⁩ about some recent changes in Antarctica, why they are so serious, and what the implications are for the rest of the world…. read his article: theguardian.com/environment/20…

3. Emperor penguins breed on 'land-fast' sea ice 🐧

It's a lengthy process: eggs incubate for 2 months, chicks aren't waterproof for 5 months.

We've only seen changes to Antarctic sea ice in the last 8 years, but even just 'early' sea ice breakup means chicks don't survive.

Although Nuyina is a magnificent #icebreaking research and supply vessel, in hindsight having two smaller ships could have been smarter: one dedicated for scientific research at sea and the other for transporting cargo and personnel to Antarctic bases. abc.net.au/news/2024-04-0…

In case you needed another reason to visit Pucón in August !

Out new review paper on the remote sensing of wildlife on land has just landed.

Bedmap3 paper map side 1 just about done. I'm taking 200 to SCAR 2024 to give away.

This is pretty extraordinary! New herring spawning grounds off the west coast of Scotland spotted from space bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Just got the final Bedmap3 grids. One thing that has struck me is that there is more ice in Antarctica than we previously thought. Significantly more😲

What's happening to the emperors?polarjournal.ch/en/2024/03/22/…

Are these the coolest jobs in the world? Probably.

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📸Matt Bell and Tom Hubbard

BAS researchers worked on this joint study of emperor penguin populations ⬇️

We need more research to know conclusively why this happened, but it could be connected to habitat changes - emperors are reliant on land-fast sea ice 🐧📉

Paper: 2024.3.13
Advances in remote sensing of emperor penguins: first multi-year time series documenting trends in the global population Royal Society Publishing royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…
Dr. Michelle LaRue Sara Labrousse Peter T Fretwell Daniel P. Zitterbart
Philip Trathan, Stephanie Jenouvrier

Scientists have seen a drop of almost 10% in emperor penguin populations in just under a decade standard.co.uk/news/environme…

Really great that Antarctic Atlas made it into this list swoop-antarctica.com/blog/the-50-be…

Letter P | Polar Scientist | A to Z of the Biosciences 2024/02/10 Royal Society of Biology
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Peter T Fretwell , head of the Wildlife from Space team at British Antarctic Survey 🐧 , uses satellites to study, detect and monitor the populations of penguins, walrus, seals and more.

Here's our new short video on the Royal Society of Biology's A to Z of bioscience . I'm under P for Polar Scientist; youtu.be/7VbE0ZQMDIY